Detachable ironing board clothes receptacles and hangers therefor



June 21, 1960 F. E. CADDEL 2,941,320

DETACHABLE mourns BOARD CLOTHES RECEPTACLES AND HANGERS THEREFOR Filed April 1, 1957 1s v /5 23 I l5 /6 20 FIG. I FIG. 2

FLORA E. CADDEL INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

niteri States Patent O fice Patented June 21, 1960 DETACHABLE IRONING BOARD CLOTHES RE- CEPTACLES AND HANGERS THEREFOR Flora E. Caddel, 701 Clark W., Kelso, Wash.

Filed Apr. 1, 1957, Ser. No. 649,791

4 Claims. (Cl. 38-111) My invention relates to means for holding articles from the floor while being ironed on an ordinary ironing board, and incorporates certain improvements over my detachable ironing board clothes receptacles Patent No. 2,708,- 323, dated May 17, 1955, which will be apparent from the specification and drawings herein.

One object of my invention is to provide means adapted to retain large articles which are being ironed on an ordinary ironing board by hand in a position adjacent to the ironing board and prevent them from contacting'the floor.

Another object of my invention is to provide means of the character described which may be swung over into close contact with the ironing board for storage purposes or readily removed from the ironing board when so desired.

Still another object of my invention is to provide receptacles of the character described which will be practical, convenient, economical and adaptable to all types of ironing boards on the present day market whether metal or wood.

A further object of my invention is to provide hangers for the receptacles which may be readily removed there from and interchanged with other types of hangers so as to adapt receptacles to any type of ironing board construction.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of the larger recepbody 22 of the receptacle by any suitablemeans. The receptacle 13 is likewise provided with a heavy frame wire 14 which forms the outer margin of the entire receptacle in the same manner and shape as the wire 12 forms the margin of receptacle'll and which is attached to the mesh body 22 thereof by any suitable means. The attachment edges 23 of the rim wires 12 and 14 are higher than the opposite edges 24 thereof to allow the receptacles to fold over so that the bottoms thereof are parallel to the top of the board when it is stored or shipped. The edge portions 23 of the marginal wires 12 and 14 are adjacent to the ironing board 10, are divided near each end of the respective receptacles, and are provided with slideable elongated collars 15, adapted to slip over the divisions. The collars 15 may be slipped longitudinally on the wires so as to expose the divided ends and thereby permit the removal or replacement of a hanger 16 as required by the particular ironing board panel 10 with which the receptacles are to be used. As shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the netted wire construc tion does not extend up to the portions 23 of the marginal wires 12 and 14. This arrangement permits the sliding of the collars 15 and the springing of the divided ends of the portions 23 of marginal wires 12 and 14. While the collars 15 are so slipped from the divided ends, these ends of the portions 23 of the marginal wires 12 and 14 may be sprung sidewise to enable slipping the hanger off said wire and replacing it with the desired hanger. If both collars 15 are slipped oif the divided ends of the portions 23 of the marginal wires 12 and'14 at the same time, then only the relatively weak structure of the netted wire receptacle 22 will hold the divided ends of the portions 23 against springing. By positioning the collars 15 over the divided ends of the marginal wires 12 or 14 a rigid unit is again formed and the hangers will be retained on said wires.

The hangers 16 are provided with three leg elements 18, 19 and 21. A threadedly mounted and adjustable screw element 20 is positioned at right angles to the length of the ironingboard and parallel with the cross section of said board'in one of the legs'18' or 19, and a hole 17 is positioned'near the top of the hanger in the leg 19.

The hole 17 is of suflicient diameter to conveniently accommodate and receive the outer marginal wires 12 or designs and also to accommodate either a straight or bent manner in which the top wire of the basket is divided and sleeved for purposes of changing and retaining hangers on the receptacles.

Fig. 5 is a detail view of one form of a hanger and a portion of a receptacle which has been bent to accommodate this form of hanger.

Fig. 6 is a detail view of another form of hanger adapted to be used with a receptacle which has not been bent.

Fig. 7 is a detail view of a portion of a hanger adapted for use with a different type of ironing board construction.

Referring further to the drawings:

An ironing board panel 10, which may be either wood or one of the various designs of metal, is detachably provided with a large clothes receptacle 11 on one side thereof and a smaller clothes receptacle 13 on the opposite side thereof. The receptacle 11 is of netted wire construction provided with a heavy frame wire 12 which forms the outer margin of the entire receptacle so that the netted wire receptacle 11 is substantially U-shaped and open at the ends. The wire 12 is secured to the mesh receptacledesign. Theleg 19," of the hangers '16 is on the outside of-the edge-of the ironing board 10 while the leg 18 is disposed parallel and oppositely thereto on the inside edge of the board 10. The threadedly mounted clamp element 20 may be disposed either in the leg 19 or the leg 18, depending on the type of board with which the particular hanger 16 is designed to be used. The hole 17 is disposed in the leg 19 of any modification of the hanger 16 and is positioned therein to retain the marginal frame wires 12 or 14 substantially at the lower surface of the ironing board edge. The leg 21 of the hangers 16, or any modification thereof, braces the receptacles in such a position that the bottoms thereof are substantially horizontal to the top of the board 10.

When mounted on any design of board 10 by the hanger suitable therefor, the baskets may be swung over the top of the board 10 eitherwith the smaller basket folding under the larger basket or with the outer edges of the two receptacles folding in adjacent to each other, depending on the width of the particular board .10 with which the receptacles are being used. The dotted lines in Fig. 3 show the receptacles 11 and 13 in the folded position for storage or shipping purposes.

It is understood that a type of hanger as shown in my Patent No. 2,708,323 is also usable on my improved ironing board clothes receptacles whenever the receptacles areto be; adapted to use on a wooden board. I t,is ifiurthert d o d hat the di losu s m de e ein a preferred embod men on of nay-in nt on and-tha variations therefirom are feasible without departing from the spirit of my invention. 7

Having thus described m n ent e-wha I. c aim. s:

1. In a clothes retaining receptacle ofinetted; wireconstruction adapted to be tached. t r de ached om. an ironing board: a rim wire, as a part of said netted wire construction, rm ng he ppe o te m gi .Qfiidid thes ecep acle; o r movab ha pi qtally mo t d o sa d r m W r ,v each. n s s ingrro thr e egs arranged substantially in a Y shape; one leg provided-with a hole therein complementary to and engageable upon the rim wire of the said netted wire receptacle, an oppositely positioned leg proyided with .a threadedly and adjustably mounted clamp meanspsaid threadedly adjustable clamp meansbeing at right angles to'thesopposite leg and the hole in the opposite leg, and a third leg depending from and below said oppositely positioned legs,

said third leg being adaptedto bear against the netted wire construction of said receptacle and to holdsaid receptacle against further rotation; the rim wire on the side of said receptacle adapted to be attached to an ironing board being divided near each end of said receptacle at pointsin close proximity to each of said hangers; a slideable collar mounted on said rim wire ateach pointof division oftsaid rim Wire adapted to slide on said wire beyond the point of division to disconnect the divisional ends of the rim wire and thereby permitting the removal of said hangers from said rim wire and the replacement-thereof with hangers of a different design.

2. In a clothes retaining receptacle adapted '-to be mounted detachably on an ironing board:- a rim wire forming the outer margin of a clothes receptacle, said receptacle having a meshed wire body consisting of-two opposing sides spaced apart by two oppositely positioned ends, said rim wire one side of said receptacle being positioned higher than it is on the other side of said receptacle and being divided near each end; a-slideable collar positioned over each division of:said-rim wire,;eachof said collars being adapted to be slideable along said rim wire to permit the springing of the 'div-ided'ends out of alignment with each other; portions of said meshed wire body being eliminated in the areas adjacent to said rirn wire divisions and said-slideable collars to enable free sliding of thersaid collars from said rim wire divisions; and removable hangers adapted to be pivotally mounted on said divided rim wire, said hangers being substantially in a Y-shape with two legs positioned oppositely and in spaced relation toeach other, one 'of said two legs being provided with a hole therethrough adapted to receive said'divided rim wire, the other of said two legs being provided with a threadedly mounted, adjustable clamping means positioned therein at a right-angular relationship to the axis of the hole in the first leg, and a third leg depending from and below said two oppositely positioned legs, completing the Y-shape of the hangers and bearing against said meshed wire body of the clothes receptacle adapted to hold said receptacle against further rotation.

3. in a clothes retaining receptacle of netted wire construction adapted to be attached to an ironing board: a rim wire forming the outermargin of said clothes retaining receptacle, said receptacle to have two sides spaced apart by the shape of said rim wire at each end of said receptacle, said rim wire being divided near each end of said receptacle on the marginal side of said recept e adan ed'm be. ad en to an o g b a 'slidablecollar; positioned over saidrirn wire near each i is o h reo ada te o s d a P s t t reta a d imw r s a ni r sel a ve i s i e o a. P9-

it to divide s d im W a a r vid d th a hole therethrough; QQIIIQlQmQIQ;B.IfY tO SB ld rim wire s d. han r; ad ed. o hemqunte 0 a i t w ne r h div s qn o sa r m i b din aid ce l a sufii r ntd stane exp s e division in e i m 4. In a clothes retaining receptacle of netted-wire construction adapted to be attached to an'ironing board;

arirn wire forming the outer margin of said clothes retaining receptac le, said receptacle to have two sides spaced apart to form an open-rended basket, said rim wire being divided near each end of said receptacle on the marginal side of said receptacle adapted to be adjacent to an ironing-board; a slidable, collar positioned over said rim .wire near each division thereof, adapted to slide to a position to retain said rim wire as a unit, or, selectively,

to slide to a position to divide said rim wire; a hanger provided with a hole therethrough complementary to said rim; wire, said hanger adapted togbe mounted on said rim wire near each division of said rimwire by sliding said .collara sufljcient distance, to expose the division, in said rim wire.

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